“Nothing Miss Close has done on the screen before approaches the richness and comic delicacy of her work as the Marquise. […] Valmont would not seem to be a role that Mr. Malkovich was born to play. […] Yet […] he is unexpectedly fine. […] Michelle Pfeiffer […] is another happy surprise as the pure wife.”Vincent Canby: Passion in the Ancien Regime: ‘Dangerous Liaisons’ on Screen. In: The New York Times, 21. Dezember 1988.
“This incisive study of sex as an arena for manipulative power games takes too long to catch fire […]. Glenn Close is admirably cast as the proud, malevolent Merteuil while the real problem is Malkovich’s Valmont. […] he lacks the devilish charm and seductiveness one senses Valmont would need to carry off all his conquests.”Dangerous Liaisons. In: Variety, 1988.
